Ed Stetzer: Preaching Christ from the Old Testament: An Introduction by Dr. Walt Kaiser Jr.

The first time I encountered the issue that the method of Christ-centered preaching from the Bible was originally intended to solve was in Dr. Sidney Greidanus' work entitled Sola Scriptura: Problems and Principles in Preaching Historical Texts, (Toronto: Wedge Publishing, 1970). In his account of the issue, the problem that particularly arose in the 1930s in the Gereformeerde Kerken in Holland, one to which he and a number of others of us rightly objected, was the manner in which some of the Biblical preaching was being practiced in the Dutch Church at that time. As he saw it, the issue was this.... Keep reading